Membranes

<p><b>Membranes - porous biological interfaces which regulate flows between one zone and another - are the foundational image for an issue guest-edited by <i>Granta</i> contributor and best-selling novelist Rana Dasgupta.</b> <p>Featuring new poetry from Andrew McMillan and Tishani Doshi, photography from Ruchir Joshi, Arturo Soto Gutierrez, Monica de la Torre and Anita Khemka, as well as cutting-edge fiction and thought-provoking essays: <p>Fatin Abbas on the border between Sudan and South Sudan<br>Lydia Davis on faultlines in families <br>Mark Doty on homelessness in New York City<br>Anouchka Grose on infidelity and the idea of the unwanted third<br>Daisy Hildyard on membranes in the human body<br>Adam Jasper on Christian Enzensberger and 'smut'<br>Kapka Kassabova on lakes and Europe<br>Anita Roy on the newt<br>Eyal Weizman on contemporary architectural strategies for repelling and dividing people</p>